Term 1, Population

Interesting links:

• How many people on earth now?
• Live map of population, emissions etc
• Glossary of demographic terms

Population games / interactive activities:

• The population and me
• The family game
• Population simulator
• Animated population atlas
• Understanding the lenght of life

Do you know your stuff?

• Fling the teacher
• Match up game (Distribution) http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/activities/popn_distribution.html
• Match up game (Density) http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/activities/popn_density.html

Population pyramids

Task 1:

1. Go to: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/summaries.html
2. Find a population pyramid typical of a poor country (LEDC = Less Economically Developed). Copy + paste it into a word document then add at least four labels to explain what is shown. (i.e. label birth and or death rate, label biggest/smallest number of people under / over a certain age or predictions for the future.)
3. At what stage of the demographic transition model is this country? How can you tell?

   DemographicTransitionModel-main_Full.jpg

Task 1b:

1. Repeat for an MEDC (more economically developed) country.

Task 2:

1. Choose any country as your case study.
2. Use the same International Database at www.census.gov to copy and paste 3 pyramids, one for 2000, one for 2025 and one for 2050. Paste these three pyramids in your word doc.
3. Use the PQE method to describe these three graphs. Use the correct terminology (see front of booklet)
4. Explain how the population of this country is changing and explain how that could affect the country in the future.

Sites to help you get started:

• pop pyramids for each country: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
• CIA Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
• http://www.allcountries.org/

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China One Child Policy

http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/onechild.htm
http://www.china-un.ch/eng/bjzl/t176938.htm

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Aging population

Japan's biggest challenge: its aging population, 2 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59tvl6mJGrQ&feature=fvw

January 31, 2008 — (4 minutes) Karolinska Institutet's renowned professor Hans Rosling looks at the challenges of Ageing Europe. http://www.gapminder.org

Data task

Google data example: http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore
"Poor children may as well die...." A 10 minute video about what stops world population growth

Now you try it: http://www.google.com/publicdata/

• Your task is to design your own visualisation of data, and you need to explain the data that you have created.
• Start with a simple visualisation and then make it more complicated as you go.
• You need to keep it relevant to our topic of Population and Sustainability.
• Publish your link + the explanation of your visualisation to the class blog (http://vanweringh10.blogspot.com/ , by emailing it to: .... tba ......

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Sustainability

Below are some TED videos .
TED videos are almost always interesting, stimulating, thought provoking and "worth spreading".

Sustainable cities: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jaime_lerner_sings_of_the_city.html
"Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what’s possible in the metropolitan landscape."

How to feed a city: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/carolyn_steel_how_food_shapes_our_cities.html
"Every day, in a city the size of London, 30 million meals are served. But where does all the food come from? Architect Carolyn Steel discusses the daily miracle of feeding a city, and shows how ancient food routes shaped the modern world."
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